Evaluation Cooperation Group

The Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) is dedicated to harmonizing evaluation work among multilateral development banks (MDBs) by working to strengthen the use of evaluation; providing a forum to share lessons; developing harmonized performance indicators, and evaluation methodologies and approaches; enhancing the professionalism of evaluation; and helping build evaluation capacity. ECG contributes to excellence in evaluation by promoting: Mutual learning and sharing of experience on issues such as evaluation governance, tools, methods, products and management. Increased contribution of evaluation to organisational results; Adoption of good practice standards and benchmarking against these; and Facilitating jointly conducted evaluations.